Harden-It 1.1

Harden-It description:

Harden-It 1.1 Windows Security Hardening Tool, harden your TCP/IP Stack and Local System. Harden-It is a Network and System hardening tool for Windows.

By hardening the IP stack your Network can sustain or completely twarth various sophisticated network attacks.
By hardening your Local System lots of current malware, spyware, worm infection are completely blocked, proactively harden your system even against future uknown attacks.

Network Hardening :
· Harden your server's TCP and IP stack (Netbios, ICMP, SYN, SYN-ACK..)
· Protect your servers from Denial of Service and other network based attacks
· Enable SYN flood protection when an attack is detected
· Set the threshold values that are used to determine what constitutes an attack
· Various other protections.

Local System Hardening :
· Harden your Local Security settings.
· Reduce potential intrusion vectors by disabling non used services.
· Proactively disable scripting or Active-X controls which proofed potential propagation vectors in the past and continue to be exploited.
· Various other protections.

Harden-It 1.1 was released on Jan 4, 2005. The current version will run on Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, NT, XP.

Harden-It is a freeware. That means that you will not have to pay to be able to use it.

Size of Harden-It 1.1 download is less than 433 Kb. DSL users will only need one minute to achieve the download, when 2 minutes may be required when using a 56k modem. (See below to download Harden-It 1.1).